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London: John Camden Hotten [and] George Routledge and Sons, 1869 / 1872. Then they began to sing that extremely lovely thing, 'Scherzando! ma non troppo ppp.'" First Editions of W.S. Gibert's The Bab Ballads in Two Superb 'Sunken-Panel' Pictorial Bindings RIVIÈRE & SON, binder. GILBERT, W.S. The "Bab" Ballads. [together with:] More "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense. London: John Camden Hotten [and] George Routledge and Sons, 1869 [and 1872]. First editions. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 184 x 133 mm. [&] 7 x 5 3/8 inches; 179 x 137 mm.). ix, [2], 14-222, [4, adv.]; viii, [1], 14-224, [4. adv.] pp. Black and white frontispieces with original tissue guards, black and white text illustrations throughout. Bound c. 1920 by Rivière & Son for the Gardenside Bookshop, Boston in full emerald crushed levant morocco with a gilt decorated broad inlaid border of maroon morocco, enclosing an elaborate gilt frame surrounding a maroon morocco border and decorated sunken central panel…
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The "Bab" Ballads. [together with:] More "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense
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Ballads and Lyrics of Love
by SHAW, Byam; Sidgwick, Frank
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Ballads and Lyrics of Love," Illustrated by Byam Shaw [SHAW, Byam, illustrator]. [SIDGWICK, Frank, editor]. Ballads and Lyrics of Love. Edited with an Introduction by Frank Sidgwick. Illustrated after Byam Shaw. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Special Edition. Limited to 260 numbered copies (this copy being No. 18). Quarto (10 x 7 1/2 inches; 255 x 190 mm.). xvii, [1, blank], 178, [2] pp. Ten mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Light green marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to spine and to extremities. Armorial bookplate of Stanley W. Rogers on front pastedown. A near fine copy. Selected from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. In 1899 Byam Shaw married the…
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The Bear the Bull Dog and the Monkey
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: , 1812. The Bear, The Bull Dog and The Monkey HEATH, William, (after). The Bear the Bull Dog and the Monkey. Pen and ink with watercolor on wove paper, (16 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches; 415 x 291 mm.). Original artwork after the published etching from August of 1812. The first image of the Russian campaign which commenced in late June, Napoleon as half-ape, gripped by the Russian bear and savaged by the bulldog, named on its collar as Wellington, manuscript verse below. "Dame Mischief may say "spare my Monkey good Sirs But I'll tell you what's best to be done The Villain delights in such mischievous stirs That 'tis wisest to stop all his fun So Bruin & Growler each play your part And worry this troublesome Blade, Then Peace shall again delight evr'y Heart And the Rogue will be robbed of his Trade" [c.f. BM Satires 11896], c.1812.
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Beirdd Gregynog. Gregynog Poets
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Tregynog, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1987. The Gegynog Poets In a Fine Designer Binding by Derek Lowe [GREGYNOG PRESS]. [LOWE, Derek, binder]. Beirdd Gregynog. Gregynog Poets. [Nos. 1-12]. Gwasg Gregynog, Tregynog, Powys, 1987-1990. A selection of twelve poems selected by Meic Stephens. Complete set of twelve numbers. Number 182 of 400 sets handset either in 16- or 14-point Bembo, printed on Zerkall paper. Octavo (9 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 251 x 149 mm.). Twelve numbers, each [4] pp., Twelve wood-engraved frontispieces. Variously colored Ingres paper wrappers with the titles on the upper covers, lists of poems on the lower covers, printed all round with a geometric motif derived from the frontage of Gregynog. A fine set. Handsomely bound by Derek Lowe ca. 1990 in full gray crushed levant morocco, front cover blind-stamped title and colorful vertical design of various onlaid strips of morocco. Smooth spine lettered in blind. Housed in the original felt-lined, gray morocco clamshell case. Very fine.…
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Belle Au Bois Dormant, La [The Sleeping Beauty]
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Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza & Cie, 1910. Numbered and Signed by the Artist In The Publishers Deluxe Morocco by Durvand A Variant Not Noted by Hughey [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. La Belle Au Bois Dormant [The Sleeping Beauty]. Et quelques aures contes de jadis. Préface de Edmund Pilon, Illustrations de Edmund Dulac. Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza & Cie, (1910). First edition in French, limited to 400 copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 266. Quarto (11 5/8 x 9 in; 293 x 228 mm). 172, [1, limitation], [1, blank], [3, adv.], [1, blank] pp. With thirty color plates as in the first English limited edition but with grey-green borders, captions in French, and guard sheets as tissue. With an additional four extra head- and tailpieces, four decorated initials and border designs for text and chapter pages, and two small medallions, all printed in grey-green, not found in the first English limited edition. In the publisher's original full crushed brown morocco deluxe binding by Durvand…
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Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn
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The Hague: Bij de Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1823. A superb copy of the finest Dutch color plate work on military costume TEUPKEN, J.F. Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn... Gevolgd van 51 platen met eene titelplaat, voorstellende officieren en manschappen van alle wapenen, in hunne volle kleeding en wapenrusting. The Hague & Amsterdam: Bij de Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1823-1826. First edition, A complete subscriber's copy with all seventy-one plates. Two large large folio volumes (14 x 9 3/8 inches; 356 x 238 mm.). [2], 10, 110, 20, [1, "Register"], [1, blank] pp. Engraved title by D. Sluyter after B. van Hove, "Aanwijzing der Platen" (2 pp.), and forty-eight hand-colored engraved plates of military costumes and three uncolored lithographed plates of decorations; [4], [2], [1]-54, [8], Engraved title by D. Sluyter after B. van Hove, "Aanwijzing der Platen" (2 pp.), and fifteen hand-colored…
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Biblia sacra ad optima veteris, ut vocant, tralationes exemplaria summa diligentia, pariq[ue] fide castigata
by [BIBLE IN LATIN]; SALOMON, Bernard, illustrator; ESTIENNE, Robert, translator
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Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1554. A Fine 1554 Robert Estienne Biblia Sacra With One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Superb Woodcuts by Bernard Salomon [BIBLE IN LATIN]. Biblia sacra ad optima veteris, ut vocant, tralationes exemplaria summa diligentia, pariq[ue] fide castigata. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1554. First De Tournes Latin Bible, based on Robert Estienne's text, and beautifully illustrated with 198 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. Octavo (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 171 x 121 mm.) . [16], 1152, [76] pp. Arabesque title border and 198 (with 1 repeat) woodcuts in the text by Bernard Salomon. *Bound without the last two blank leaves. Title-page with faint early ink "ex-Libris petri ------ at top blank margin. Title-page expertly cleaned, some occasional mainly marginal faint foxing, otherwise a superb example of this wonderfully illustrated mid sixteenth-century Latin Bible. Contents: Old Testament; Psalms; New Testament, Epistles, Acts; Index Testimoniorum & Index Epistolarum. Bound ca. 1880 by Chambolle-Duru in…
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Bibliography of Samuel Johnson, A.
by COSWAY BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; [MISS C.B. CURRIE], miniaturist; COURTNEY, William Prideaux & SMITH, David Nichol
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Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1925. The True Art of Memory is the Art of Attention" (Samuel Johnson) A Superb Cosway Binding with a Remarkable Portrait by Miss C.B. Currie of Dr. Samuel Johnson COSWAY BINDING. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. [MISS C.B. CURRIE], miniaturist. A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson by William Prideaux Courtney and David Nichol Smith. A Reissue of the Edition of 1915 Illustrated with Facsimiles. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. Limited to 350 copies. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 223 x 140 mm.). [i]-viii, [1]-186 pp. Thirty-seven facsimile plates. Limitation statement at front "This is No. 926 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J. H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie. Signed (in black ink) 'J.H. Stonehouse' Inventor. 'C.B. Currie' Artist." Bound by Rivière & Son in full dark green crushed levant morocco. Covers with gilt double-rule border, the front cover set with superb and very large rectangular portrait miniature set under beveled glass (measuring 4 7/8…
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Bilder-Alphabet zur Erweekung des Scharfsinns
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Nurnberg: G.N. Renner, 1838. One of the Most Beautiful 'ABC' Books of the Biedermeier Period Johann Voltz's Wonderful Picture Alphabet Depicting the Everyday Life of Country and Townsfolk VOLTZ, Johann Michael. [ABC]. Bilder-Alphabet zur Erweekung des Scharfsinns oder viele Original Darstellungen, nach jedem Buchstaben in 24 Gemälden. Eine neue Bilderlust herausgegeben für Kleine und Grosse. Schwarze und illum Ausgabe. Nürnberg: G.N. Renner, ca. 1838. Translation: "Picture alphabet to awaken the intellect; or many original depictions, after each letter in 24 paintings. A new joy in pictures for young and old. Black and colored edition." Folio (13 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 337 x 238 mm.). Complete with the pictorial hand colored lithograph title-page and twenty four magnificent hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. Two lithographed leaves of text at end. Twenty-seven leaves complete. Plates "I" and "J" are combined on one plate which has the date MDCCCXXXVIII - the letter "Y"…
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Bill the Minder
by BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE; ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator; LEWIS, Chris
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London: Constable, 1912. He Doesn't Mind This Outstanding Binding Wonderfully Finished by Christopher Lewis of Bayntun-Rivière ROBINSON, W. Heath. [LEWIS, Christopher, finisher]. [BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, binder]. Bill the Minder. London: Constable, 1912. Limited to 380 copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 228. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in; 270 x 215 mm). xiv, [2], 254, [2] pp. Sixteen tipped-in color plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards, and 117 black and white illustrations, including full title-pages, vignettes, head- and tailpieces. An exceptional and unique 'inlaid binding', c. 1982, by Bayntun-Rivière (designed and finished by Christopher Lewis) in full red crushed morocco with multi-colored pictorial inlays and black-stamped flowers that reproduce the color plate, "The King of Troy Compelled to Ask His Way," opposite p. 30, within a blind-tooled frame surrounded by gilt double-ruled borders. Raised bands with gilt tools and compartments with gilt ornaments…
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Bill the Minder
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London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1912. Heath Robinson's Wittiest Drawings ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill the Minder. Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1912. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 380 numbered copies (this copy being No. 192), signed by the author/artist. Large quarto (11 1/8 x 9 inches; 283 x 229 mm.). xiv, [2], 254, [2] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. One hundred and seventeen black and white illustrations, including full title-pages, vignettes, head- and tailpieces. A little light foxing to first and last leaves only, otherwise a fine and fresh copy. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1990 in full crimson morocco, covers bordered in gilt, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt with the original design. Spine with five raised bands paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, cockerel end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. From…
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Blessed Damozel, The
by ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel; RICKETTS, Charles; MOSHER, Thomas B.
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. One of Ten Copies Printed on vellum With Ten Fine Initial Letters Printed in Red and Black ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. RICKETTS, Charles. MOSHER, Thomas B. The Blessed Damozel. [colophon: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901]. First Variorum Edition. One of Ten Copies Printed on Vellum (this being No. 2) signed by Thomas Mosher, with Designs by Charles Ricketts. Small quarto (5 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 146 x 134 mm.). [i-v, blank], vi, limitation, [inserted photogravure portrait], xiii, [i, blank], [1]- 32, [2], [4, blank] pp. The photogravure frontispiece is after the author's 1874 portrait of Alexa Wilding for Lord Mount-Temple. Publishers vellum over boards, spine lettered in gilt (gilt somewhat faded), remains of original tan silk ties. Spine a little discolored and with minimal loss to extreme top, otherwise a wonderful copy. The Arthur A Houghton copy with his bookplate on rear paste-down. The text is here printed as it first appeared in the…
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Boccherini's Minuet and the Caliph of Baghdad
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[Lodsworth, West Sussex]: , 1955. A Scarce Original, Autobiographical Drawing Not to be Pooh-Pooh'ed SHEPARD, E[rnest] H. Boccherini's Minuet and the Caliph of Baghdad. [Lodsworth, West Sussex, ca. 1955-1957]. Original pen-and-ink drawing by renowned illustrator Ernest H. Shepard of himself at age seven, with his sister Ethel, a few years older, depicting them in practice during a screeching violin lesson. Image size: 3 3/4 x 6 7/16 inches; 95 x 164 mm. Signed with initials at lower left. Additionally signed in ballpoint pen on back "E.H. Shepard / Woodmancote / Lodsworth / Sussex". Matted, framed and glazed. A delightful image of Shepard's childhood, which originally appeared in his autobiography, Drawn from Memory (1957), and was later reproduced only once, on page twenty-seven of The Work of E.H. Shepard by Rawle Knox (1979). Found on page thirty-three of Drawn from Memory, it is captioned, "My little fingers never seemed to be in the right place." "Once a week we all three of us [siblings]…
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Boilly's Humorous Designs
by BOILLY, Louis-Léopold
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London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823 & D. Alexander, 1823. Scarce First British Appearance of Boilly's Grimaces Eleven Superb Hand Colored Lithographs BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. Boilly's Humorous Designs. London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823 & D. Alexander, 1824. A fine collection from the first UK publication of Boilly's initial plates from his Recueil de Grimaces (1823). Folio (14 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 372 x 264 mm). Eleven superb hand-colored lithographed plates after Boilly. Plate numbers one & six are watermarked "J. Whatman 1823". Original half red morocco over drab gray boards, expertly rebacked to style, original rectangular red morocco label on front cover lettered in gilt "Humorous Designs by L. Boilly". Later endpapers. A superb collection with bright and vivid hand coloring. Exceedingly scarce. 1. Grimaces. Pl:1. Pubd by E & C McLean (Emotions- five male figures) 2. Grimaces. Pl:2. Pubd by E & C McLean (Emotions- five female figures) 3. Grimaces. Pl:3. Pubd by E & C McLean (five men tasting gruel) 4.…
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London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823. Scarce First British Appearance of Boilly's Grimaces BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. Boilly's Humorous Designs. Seven Plates, Coloured After the Original Drawings. Price One Guinea. London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823. First UK publication of a selection of Boilly's initial plates from his Recueil de Grimaces (1823). Folio (14 1/2 x 11 in; 375 x 275 mm). Seven hand-colored lithographed plates after Boilly with original tissue guards. The third plates is watermarked "J. Whatman 1823". The wrappers are watermarked "1820". Original printed buff wrappers. An excellent copy, housed in a later black cloth portfolio, lettered in gilt on front cover and with the bookplate of Alfred N. Beadleston. Exceedingly scarce, with only one copy in institutional holdings worldwide, at Harvard's Houghton Library "Address to the Public. On or before November the 1st, will be Published by E. and C. M'Lean, a Second Series of Boilly's Designs, executed in the same superior and elegant form.…
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Bons Parisienes, Ces
by MORIN, Edmond, illustrator
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Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1842. 'The Parisians at Play' Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Edmond Morin MORIN, Edmond, illustrator. [Ces Bons Parisiens]. (These Good Parisians). Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [ca. 1842]. Folio (13 3/16 x 9 5/8 inches; 335 x 245 mm.). Twenty highly amusing, hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. A few plates with light marginal foxing. Publisher's? black paper over boards, covers elaborately stamped in gilt with "1842 Album" in the center. Covers a little worn at joints and corners, some old 'tape' stains on endpapers. An excellent example of a super rare album. This is only the second time in over 50 years that we have ever seen this suite of colored lithographs. According to OCLC there are just two copies located in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum and the New York Public Library (NY, USA). Note: Neither of these copies are recorded as having color plates. The plates - all…
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Book of Household Management; The
by [COOKERY]. BEETON, Isabella Mrs
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London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. The First Edition of Mrs. Beeton An interesting look at life in a Victorian household, and the running of it BEETON, Isabella Mrs. The Book of Household Management; ... With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all things connected with Home Life and Comfort. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first impression with 18 Bouverie St. stated to the illustrated title page, and the farmyard frontispiece. Two small octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 181 x 114 mm.). [iii]-xxxix, [1, blank]. [1]-512; [ii, title-page, verso imprint], [513]-1112 pp. Colored frontispiece, color title-page and twelve color plates. Frontispiece and colored title browned in blank margins, a few mainly marginal light stains. Contemporary three-quarter dark blue calf over gray marbled boards, decoratively ruled in blind, spines with four raised bands decoratively ruled in gilt and blind, red morocco label lettered in gilt, pale blue/gray endpapers. Contemporary ink signature of…
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The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion
by COSWAY BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist; ANONYMOUS
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London: Henry Colburn, 1847. An Exceptionally Fine Cosway Binding With a Superb Hand Painted Portrait Miniature of Queen Elizabeth I By Miss C.B. Currie [COSWAY BINDING]. [ANONYMOUS]. The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By a Lady of Rank. Illustrated with upwards of 200 engravings on wood by the most eminent artists. London: Henry Colburn, 1847. New edition 1847 stated on title page (first printed the previous year in 1846). Large octavo (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 238 x 146 mm.). Colored lithograph frontispiece, xii, [1]-482 pp. Handsomely bound in full blue crushed levant morocco ca. 1929 by Rivière and Sons, binders stamp on the lower front turn-in, and that of Mrs. C.B. Currie on the rear turn-in. Front cover elaborately decorated in gilt with two sunken panels above and below a large oval miniature of Queen Elizabeth I, hand painted by Miss C.B. Currie, inset under slightly convex glass. Rear cover with a simple design of gilt rules, rolls…
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Book of Common Prayer, The
by FORE-EDGE PAINTING.; DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER; BIBLE IN ENGLISH
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Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1790. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden A Superb Fore-Edge Painting by the 'Double-Line Painter' FORE-EDGE PAINTING. DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER, artist. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David... Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1790. With a very fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting by the "Double-Line Painter" depicting the Expulsion of Adam & Eve from the Garden of Eden. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches; 292 x 231 mm.). 206 un-numbered leaves (including title-page). Some occasional and very minor toning, otherwise near fine. Full contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers panelled in gilt with gilt corner fleurons. Smooth spine elaborately ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt…
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Book of Job, The
by SZYK, Arthur, illustrator; [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1946. The Greatest Poem of Ancient and Modern Times (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Eight Magnificent Colored Illustrations by Arthur Szyk [SZYK, Arthur, illustrator]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Book of Job from the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James 1 with a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase... [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1946. Limited to 1,950 copies signed by Arthur Szyk (this being number 478). Folio (12 x 8 1/2 inches; 304 x 216 mm.). 148, [2, blank], [1, limitation], [5, blank] pp. Eight mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk. Publishers three-quarter creme leather over white paper boards, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine title blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Minimal rubbing to spine extremities otherwise an excellent copy housed in the original (slightly worn) red felt-lined metallic gold slipcase. Complete with the LEC Monthly Letter loosely inserted. The Book of Job is a book in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the…
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